Recognizing shortfalls is 1st step to excellence

SECRETARY Herminio Coloma Jr. deserves praise for using some of yesterday's Malacañang press briefing time to "admit shortfalls" of the Aquino administration.

We hope President Aquino doesn't fire him for taking the first step to make the Aquino administration excellent.  We say this because there is one dominant characteristic of the President that everyone has seen these three and a half years-plus that he and the Liberal Party and its allies have ruled this country.  This dominant characteristic is his loathing for admitting mistakes and apologizing for them.